If brains had recorders, my blogging task would have been a cinch this week. Just yesterday one of these beautiful Sunbirds (not my photo), full from feasting on Bauhinia nectar outside my window, flew in and perched on my curtain. With his black-blue neck feathers gleaming, he hopped up and down the gauze, chirped twice, [...]

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Until December 2007, bird flu was found in Poland amongst migrating birds, dropping dead here and there once in a while by a river, usually close to the Russian border. The news reported it, Poles talked about it but everyone still cooked the traditional chicken soup with egg noodles for Sunday dinner. I for one [...]

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When we first got to Vancouver we stayed in a pretty seedy part of Downtown. There were a lot of people homeless on the streets, drug use evident everywhere, a city-wide garbage strike and people having severe mental issues on buses. Tired from our travels and anxious to love our new city let’s [...]

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